Glad to be a newbie on Mint and linux generally, and looking forward to years of safe computing away from the nightmare world of windows with which I have been for 25 years now
I have a Dell Vostro 1220 laptop and just installed Mint 9 Gnome 64 bit.
I have noticed that whilst running Skype the external microphone will not be recognised by the system although it is properly plugged into the jack. External loudspeakers work OK, but not the mic. The other person can hear me if I speak into the inbuilt mic, but it is a bit awkward and I am surprised that neither in Skype nor Pulseaudio nor sound preferences can I anywhere see anything obvious to be able to switch between the mics.
I use Skype for business reasons and so it is fairly useful for me to try and crack this issue. Any help much appreciated. Also I just learned how to install and use Video4Linux to be able to enable webcam for skype. It works, but I understand that I need to run the app each time I want to video conference, so its a small inconvenience and I am wondering if there is a way around that.
Appreciate any help, thanks.